About

Campaign Whale is an influential, non-profit organisation dedicated to protecting whales, dolphins and porpoises and their habitats. The organisation was established in 1980 and is managed by founding Director, Andy Ottaway, a well-respected leading expert in whale and dolphin protection. Campaign Whale benefits from the support of a number of long-term volunteers.

Campaign Whale’s objectives are to:

Preserve and strengthen the ban on commercial whaling, which is in danger of total collapse

Force Governments to act over the increasing environmental threats to the survival of whales and dolphins from climate change, pollution, over-fishing, entanglement in nets, ship-strikes and lethal naval sonar

Campaign for the establishment of comprehensive whale sanctuaries to protect all whale and dolphin species and their habitats

Stop Iceland’s recent resumption of commercial whaling

End the mass slaughter of smaller whales, dolphins and porpoises in Japan and around the world

Overview of achievements:

Founded the Global Whale Alliance (GWA), an international network of over 160 animal welfare and conservation groups in thirty countries working together to stop commercial whaling

Co-launched an international campaign called ‘Whalewatch’ to highlight the cruelty of whaling with a major report entitled, ‘Troubled Waters’. The report was introduced by Sir David Attenborough

Established ‘America’s Whale Alliance’ to press the US Government to oppose commercial whaling

The only British organisation in the ‘Save Japan’s Dolphins’ coalition fighting the mass slaughter of dolphins and porpoises in Japan

Commissioned a major legal review exposing serious loopholes in EU legislation for the protection of whales and dolphins

Launched a campaign to stop oil and gas development in the feeding grounds of the critically endangered Western Pacific Gray whale

Funded an investigation that exposed the illegal slaughter of dolphins in Peru